Fence-guard.



A. W. EIKENBERRY.

FENCE GUARD.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 26. 1918.

Patented Sept. 10, 1918.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 10, 1918.

Application filed J une 26, 1918. Serial No. 241,940.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAM W.- EIKEN- BERRY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Flora, in the county of Carroll and State ofIndiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inFence-Guards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a guard for fences designed to preventingstock from jumping over a fence and also to prevent them rubbing againstthe posts and thereby gradually pushing them over.

To accomplish these results the device is so adapted that it will holdguard wires on each side of the fence, one above the plane of the fencetop, the other in a plane below the top of the fence, both wires beingspaced from the. fence, and adjustable.

The invention also consists in the novel features of constructionhereinafter described, pointed out in the claims, and shown in theaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a postshowing my device in position, dotted lines indicating adjustments, thefence wires being in cross section.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail sectional View on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an inner face View of a rotatable disk designed to be mounted.on the base p ate.

Fig. at is a detail face view of a base plate.

In the drawings 1 designates the post, and 2 the fence wires. Myattachment comprises a base 3 adapted to be secured by screws or nailsto aside of the post, and preferably adjacent its upper end. On itsinner face this plate has a recess 4: communicating with a bore 5.

On its outer face it has a ring of circular pockets 6. Mounted on thebase plate is a disk 7 having on its inner face knobs 8 adapted to enterthe pockets 6 and lock the disk against rotation. On its outer facethere are out two parallel grooves 9 across the disk which formguideways for the members of a longitudinally slotted bar 10. At itsends the bar 10 is bifurcated as at 11 and guard wires 12 are held inthe bifurcations by pins or keys 13. A bolt 14 passes loosely throughthe slot of the bar 10 and through the disk and the bore 5 and has itshead seated in the recess a of the base 3.

By loosening the usual nut on the bolt 14 the disk can be slippedoutwardly so as to withdraw the knobs 8 from the pockets 6 and the diskrotated to set the guideways at the required angle, thus changing theinclination of the bar 10. The bar can therefore occupy as manypositions as there are pockets on the base. The bar can also be adjustedlongitudinally so as to throw the guard wires toward or away from thefence, or to hold both at an equal distance from the fence. Three of thevarious adjustments are shown in Fig. 1. The adjustment made woulddepend on whether the fence was a line fence, Was a division fencebetween two fields, and onwhethe-r stock was in only one or both of thefields, and the kind of stock carried. I

The higher wire acts to prevent stock jumping the fence and the lowerwire prevents the stock on that side rubbing against the posts andforcing them out of upright position. The device also prevents stockfrom trampling on the lower line wire of the fence, mashing'it down, orrubbing on the upper line. wires gradually pressing the fence over andbreaking it down.

What I claim is 1. A device of the kind described comprising a bar,guard wires carried thereby, a rotatable disk having guideways toreceive the bar, the inner face of the disk having a ring of knobsthereon, a base secured to a fixed support and having on its outer facea ring of pockets to receive the knobs, and common means for locking thebar, disk and base together.

2. A device of the kind described comprising a base secured to the sideof a post, said base having a central recess on its inner face and aconcentric ring of pockets on its outer face, a bolt having its headseated in the recess, a disk loosely mounted on the bolt and havingknobs on its inner face to engage the pockets of the base, and havingparallel guideways on its outer face, and a longitudinally slotted baradapted tocarry guard wires, the members of the bar being slidably heldin the guideways, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ABRAM W. EIKENBERRY.

